Example sentences of "then he [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick .
2 Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor .
3 Then he eased himself to his feet and scrambled back to Wexford .
4 Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut .
5 Then he hanged himself in the garage close to where he found battered Marion dying last week .
6 Then he hurled himself against the rigid flap of wall , pushing it , bending it back into the hole , stamping on it as he forced his way into the darkness beyond .
7 Then he pronounced himself in favour of Baldwin remaining in office to meet Parliament .
8 Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400 , and walked out jauntily .
9 Then he found himself in conversation with the Queen and the subject cropped up .
10 It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge .
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